Improvement in ruffles



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

C. O. CROSBY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT..

IMPROVEMENT IN RUFFLES.

Specification forming part of Letters'Patent No. 41,280, dated J anuary 19,1864.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1,0. O. CROSBY, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ruffles ;v and I do hereby declare the following to. be a full, clear, and

exact description of the same, when-taken in and Henry Kellogg, bearinggdate. the ,2d

'day of December, A. 13.18625 and it consists in attaching to the ruffle' or frillja ribbon or narrow lstrip of fabric, to`serve`as avfacing in attachin'g the ruie to a garment, the said strip *or ribbon secured to the rufe at the time the crimps are made in the machine by the same two rows of stitching which secure the crimps made by thecrimpingor frilling apparatus, as fully set forth in the Letters Patent aforesaid. f

To enable others skilled in the art to pro'- duce' my improved rufe, I'will proceed to describe the same. i .i lI first take a ribbon or strip of fabric, a.,

'l (preferring thin muslin) of the proper width to make my rufiie. I hem the said strip upon one edge, unless it be' a sewage, (see b, Fig. 2,) and introduce one end of the strip (that side upon which the hem is laid being-up) into the frilling-machine before refered to. At the same time I introducea second strip, c, to the'same machine above the piece a. I pass; the second strip,c,through an instrument simi# lar to the common hemmer, the -dilerence being that i the instrument I employ simply turns-'the edge of the fabric,1aying a single fold, while the common hemmer lays a double` fold. This said instrument turns under one edge of the strip c and guides the said strip into the machine by the mechanism before refered to. The under strip, a, is crimped,shirred, or plaited, While the upper strip lies at upon the topof the ruffle, and near the edge opposite to the hem. At the same time the samemachine runs two rows of stitching (denoted in red) along the turned under-edge of the upper strip 'and through 'both strip and rufiie, se-

curing the two together and at the same time the plaitsor crimps ofthe ruffle, and my improved rufle comes from the machine finished.

The under strip may pass through an instrument nto'the crimping apparatus, which shall turn-over the inner edge (see Fig. 4) in like Amanner as the edge of the upper strip orbinding (as it may be' termed)' was turned under, Which turnedover edge will be stitched down by one of the two rows of stitching, and thus produce a rufiie more finished in appear- 'ance than 'the method first described.

The use ofthe strip or binding. thus attached I illustrate in Fig. 3, where'd represents a section of the edge of a garment to which the ruie is to be attached.

I first hem or stitch the insideedge of the garment to the back side of the ruffle, so that the edge of the garment will cover. the lower row `of stitches', then turn in the edge' of the strip c (see said Fig. 3) and hem down the edge, and the work is done, and presents a neat and finished appearance both upon the wrong and right side.

4 Having thus fully set' forth and described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is--` As a new article of manufacture, the Withindescribed ruffle, when the bindingis turned under, as described, and the frill and binding secured together by-'two rows of stitching..

substantially as specified, whether the edge of the frill under the binding is turned over or not.

l c. 0..-oEosBY. Witnesses:

,RUEUs SANFORD. JOHN E. EAELE. 

